Re: [resend][PATCH] avoid signed vs unsigned comparison inefi_range_is_wc()

[Andrew Morton]

Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I send in the patch below a while back but never recieved any response.
> Now I'm resending it in the hope that it might be added to -mm.

There are surely many warnings in the tree, hence I'm not really interested
in patches which only fix `gcc -W' warnings.

How many are there?

> It looks to me like a significantly large 'len' passed in could cause the 
> loop to never end. Isn't it safer to make 'i' an unsigned long as well? 

Nope.  All operations which mix signed and unsigned types promote the
signed type to unsigned.

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